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TOSP Episode 3: September 26th 2011

[Original post on the Sciblogs The Official Sciblogs Podcast site]

UPDATE: Youtube vids now up (and at bottom of post)

Including fallen angels satellites, post-doc jobs in NZ, Foldit, HIV, nanotubes, Chinese space programme, neutrinos, intuition, suing geologists, Otzi, poetry.  And a bunch of other stuff!

This week’s episode is a little longer than usual.

Why?  Because there was such a preponderance of interesting sciencepr0n that we (aimee and Elf)  just couldn’t help ourselves*.  So we didn’t try :)

PODCAST HERE

As always, please do contact us with constructive criticisms, commentary, camaraderie or questions**.

This week’s pearltree here, all TOSP pearltrees here.

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Links

NASA satellite plunges to Earth

Do People with Doctoral Degrees get Jobs in New Zealand Post Study?

BBC News - Lock of hair pins down early migration of Aborigines

Cells dine on nanotubes with dire results

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Foldit

Online gamers crack AIDS enzyme puzzle

Foldit wiki

BikeLouP’s Game Strategy and Tactics

Galaxy Zoo

Science for Citizens

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China to launch Heavenly Palace space test unit next week

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Videos

What does it feel like to fly over planet Earth?

Rutherford’s big discovery – 100 years later

How Rutherford shaped nuclear physics

Rutherford’s legacy to Manchester

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Quantum Cheshire Cat: Even Weirder Than Schrödinger’s

Gene Therapy May Thwart HIV

Why Intuition Makes People More Likely to Believe in God

Earthquake Scientists On Trial In Italy

Lab Claims Faster-Than-Light Particle

CERN claims faster-than-light particle measured

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Sciblogs

Scientists as scapegoats?

FTL neutrinos FTW!

Happy Birthday Otzi

Alternative Medicine

Time for a New Scientific Revolution

Where have we been?

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Events

Events calendar, including (not limited to) this week’s Navigation Nights at the Carter Observatory

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Other interesting things

Hour-By-Hour Breakdown Of Media Consumption By Generation

Cyclotrons could boost technetium supply

Induction of Malaria Parasite Migration by Synthetically Tunable Microenvironments

Star with earth-like planets

Bioinspired self-repairing slippery surfaces with pressure-stable omniphobicity

Biophysics: DNA is as elastic as nylon

Star Measurements Hint at Many More Abodes for Life

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* Also, aimee’s brain is still only functioning on about 2 valves*** :P  She is sorry, and hopes her steady diet of braaainzzzz will improve matters in the very near future.

** It still counts an alliteration, mk?

*** Vacuum tubes.

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  • Michael Edmonds

    I am enjoying the podcast, you are picking up some great stories which I will have to follow up now -damn you - as if I don’t have enough to do :-)

    Keep it up, fantastic job